Zach Wener-Fligner, Annabelle Timsit

Between June 2018 and May 2019, groups of US high school students were shown a grainy video on Facebook in which poll workers appeared to be stuffing ballots. The video had been posted by a user who went by the name “I on Flicks.” It claimed to show scenes from the 2016 Democratic primaries in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. The caption read, “Have you ever noticed that the ONLY people caught committing voter fraud are Democrats?”

In February 2009, Lauren Lollini, a psychotherapist from Colorado, had a kidney stone removed at Rose Medical Center in Denver. It was a routine procedure, but for weeks after her surgery, Lollini experienced flu-like symptoms, including nausea and extreme fatigue. When she went back to the hospital to find out what was going on, doctors diagnosed her with Hepatitis C, a tough-to-treat liver infection that is most often spread among intravenous drug users who share needles.

If the world’s 190-some countries were a classroom, Nordic countries would be the star pupils. Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark consistently score the highest across a broad range of indicators, from social welfare to corruption, criminal justice, and gender equality. Nowhere is this more obvious than family-friendly policies. The assumption that these countries are the best place to have and raise children is so entrenched that it might almost be boring to write about.

They say all politics is local, but the upcoming UK general election on Dec. 12 has gone global.

Decades of research have shown that one of the best long-term investments a government can make is in improving vulnerable children’s start to life.

The New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) is investigating Goldman Sachs after users complained that the Apple Card’s algorithm discriminates against women in determining credit limits, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 10.

The 50th season of Sesame Street kicked off yesterday (Nov. 9) with a new message for kids: Failure isn’t always a bad thing.

Following weeks of public protests over the results of a disputed Oct. 20 election in which Bolivian president Evo Morales claimed victory, Morales announced today that he would resign.

Police in Tuscaloosa, Alabama arrested a person in connection with a balloon-slashing incident that took place Nov. 9 during Donald Trump’s visit to a football game between the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University.

Ahead of a general election that has the UK more divided than ever, an initiative of the Royal British Legion and the think tank British Future seeks to encourage everyone to “remember together” those who sacrificed their lives during World War II.

Technology developed over the past two decades—including smartphones, laptops, tablets, and the applications that populate them—has radically transformed what childhood looks and feels like, and parents are having a hard time adjusting.

Language might once have been a barrier but today it would be commonplace—barely noticeable, in fact—to hear a Dutchman in Japan asking his Russian waiter for a glass of water. That’s because, for better of worse, English has become the world’s lingua franca. But a new report shows that, in some of Europe’s leading economies, English proficiency appears to be declining.

Inequality between boys and girls begins in childhood. Now, a recent study suggests a straightforward way to address it.

An unofficial delegation of more than 20 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) traveled to the Indian-administered part of the disputed territory of Kashmir this week, setting off a controversy in India and beyond about the purpose of the trip and the person who organized it. At least one member of the delegation—Thierry Mariani, who’s affiliated with France’s far-right Rassemblement National party—told Quartz that the trip was worthwhile because “Kashmir is a region to follow. The risk is that the [terrorist] home could move and that we could have a sort of second Afghanistan in Kashmir, with an extremely ambiguous attitude on the part of Pakistan, which is evidently helping them.”

If you are reading this and wearing Nike or Adidas sneakers, there is a good chance they were made in a factory in Vietnam by a female worker who can’t afford to pay for childcare.

New parents face a myriad of challenges, from figuring out childcare and finances to making important decisions about their baby’s health and early education. But one of the most pervasive and least-talked about issues confronting new moms and dads is loneliness.

Most toddlers don’t spend their days picking up sticks and chasing centipedes in the forest with their teacher. But for the first time this fall, some preschoolers in Washington state will.

Four major drug companies reached a settlement in Ohio today, narrowly avoiding a trial that was expected to set the tone for opioid lawsuits across the US.

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the twin birthrate has dropped in the United States after rising for more than 30 years.

For the more than 3 million citizens of EU countries who live in the UK, Brexit is a bureaucratic nightmare. In order to stay in Britain past June 2021, EU citizens have to apply for special status, a process that, while begrudgingly offered free of charge, is anything but simple. “Settled” status is given to EU nationals who have lived in the UK for five years before applying, who can then stay in the UK indefinitely and apply for British citizenship a year after they get the status. “Pre-settled” status goes to those living in the UK for fewer than five years but before the end of 2020 or the date of a no-deal Brexit. It allows holders to live in the UK for five years and then choose wh ether to apply for settled status.

Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president of the European Commission, triggered a controversy when she announced that she would create a new post in her administration for a “vice-president for protecting our European way of life.”

Flouting tradition, this year’s prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction is to be shared by Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other, and Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood, for The Testaments.

Like many three-and-a-half year olds, Odille Igirimbabazi loves to sing and dance. On a recent morning in her home, wearing her favorite blue and yellow dress and clutching a doll that her dad, James, made for her, she sings religious songs and sways energetically as James watches, claps, and smiles, tapping his feet. When she finishes, he scoops her up into his arms to tell her how proud he is. “Bravo!”

Today, members of the European Parliament got the chance to question one of the nominees for the new European Commission that will take office on Nov. 1: “vice-president for protecting our European way of life.”